Garage



Jan. 3, 1928.

G. L. C. EARLE GARAGE Original Filed March 19. 1926 ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 3, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Original application filed March 19, 1926, Serial No. 85,847. Divided and this application filed July 87,

1926. Serial No. 125,164.

My invention relates to garages and involves a novel two-story garage having certain advantages, as hereinafter set forth. This application is a division of my applia cation Serial No. 95,847, filed March 19,

The drawing accompanying this" application shows in longitudinal section one specific embodiment of my invention, including the garage and the approaches thereto.

The garage has upper and lower inclined and parallel floors 7 and 8. is an entrance door to the lower compartment. The upper end of the lower floor 8 is substantially 15 below the general ground level indicated by the line 16. The upper compartment or floor of the garage has the entrance door 17 at the opposite end of the structure from door 15, and the lower end of the floor 7 is 20 substantially above the ground level 16. The door 15 is approached from the ground level by the downwardly inclined ramp 4, and ordinarily this ramp will lead to a level roadway 6 connecting the ramp with the entrance of the lower compartment. The upper compartment is approached by the upwardly inclined ramp 18.

By constructing a two-story garage in this manner the gradients necessary for the so ramps approaching both entrances may be reduced to a minimum. \Vhere the garage is as shown of a depth sutficient only to enclose a single car length, as, for example, in the case of individual garages, it is obviously essential that the .floor of the lower compartment must be, generally speaking, inclined practically throughout if the best gradient is to be obtained for the ramp 18, and, similarly, to obtain the best gradient 4 the upper floor 7 must also be generally inclined from one end to the other. With garages of greater length, less sharply inclined floors will be necessary to enable a desirable approach gradient to be obtained, and if the garage be deep enough it may not be necessary to incline the central portions of the flooring. In any case, the upper floor 7 is entirely above the general ground level, while the lower floor 8 is entirely below the general floor level.

Garages embodying the principles of my invention as herein set forth are not only easier to approach than the usual house basement garage, but they enable the storage of automobiles in upper and lower floors without elevators or sharply inclined or long ramps. Moreover, the construction of such a garage lends itself to pleasing architectural design and to compact and convenient grouping of individual garages.

' Having thus described my invention what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is:'

1. A.two-story garage comprising parallel inclined floors, one entirely below and the other entirely above the general ground level, the walls of the garage being constructed with an entrance to the lower floor at one end of the garageand with an entrance to the upper floor at the opposite 'end thereof.

a door covering an entrance to the upper floor.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

GUYON L. C. EARLE. 

